2026 Sail Salem Pursuit Regatta

Thirty-four boats representing eleven yacht clubs competed, including skippers from Boston Yacht Club, Eastern Yacht Club, Jubilee Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, Dolphin Yacht Club, Marblehead Yacht Club, Nahant Dory Club, New York Yacht Club, Palmer’s Cove Yacht Club, Hull Yacht Club, Winthrop Yacht Club, and Waikiki Yacht Club. The trophy winners are:
 

2026 SPIN (Spinnaker) Division Winners

1st Place: Indra, Kim Breed, Boston Yacht Club

2nd Place: Virgo, Dan Rabin, Jubilee Yacht Club

3rd. Place: Fawn Liebowitz, Bump Wilcox, Boston Yacht Club

2026 JAM (Jib and Main) Division Winners

1st Place: Exocet, Kevin Taylor, Boston Yacht Club

2nd Place: Hot Spur; Phil DiCarlo Boston Yacht Club

3rd Place: Ares, Linda Hosking, Boston Yacht Club

Complete Race Results

The entry list and race results for the 2024 Sail Salem Pursuit Regatta are posted on the Clubspot Website.

Post-Race Party

Regatta co-chairs Karen Tenenbaum and JuLee Colella organized the always popular, traditional post-race party at the Boston Yacht Club featuring food, live music, and a cash bar. Rumson’s Rum provided the race trophies and tastings of its fine, barrel aged Caribbean rums that are blended, finished, and bottled in Salem.

Leighton O’Connor, a long time supporter of Sail Salem, captured great photos of the race, available on his Website under Regatta Photos. A sampling of his photos is here:

Thank You, BYC

We at Sail Salem thank the Boston Yacht Club for hosting another successful Labor Day Sail Salem Pursuit Regatta, and for its membership’s continued support of our mission “to leave no kid on the dock.”

— Paul V. McLaughlin, President